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Off topic, but any advice for how I can marry a Space Doctor?
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Dec 27, 2016 22:12
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Liquid Communism posted:Part of the issue is that there -aren't- a lot of old crappy houses. Most of the old houses that were crap have fallen down or been torn down by now, and the new houses that -are- crap have people trying to sell them who are vastly upside down on their mortgages + lines of equity credit so sale prices aren't dropping. Also, at least in the Bay Area, a lot of supply is being purposely taken off the market by people buying it as investment property, turning it into short-term rentals (see this great piece about that in Bloomberg today) or just tearing it down to make room for more profitable office complexes. Baby Babbeh fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Dec 27, 2016 |
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Dec 27, 2016 22:17
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And since it's the Bay Area, building affordable housing is basically illegal so it's certainly not getting replaced (specifically because people want prices to keep going up up up and also having homes for "poors" next door will lower property values or neighbourhood culture or the view or whatever)
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Dec 27, 2016 22:50
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RandomPauI posted:Off topic, but any advice for how I can marry a Space Doctor? move to galveston, dayton or rochester (mn). those are the only civilian space medicine residency programs in the usa and they're your best best for meeting a space doctor who is single
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Dec 27, 2016 23:23
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Mr.Unique-Name posted:SC2 is still doing pretty well, I think, although the LoL esports scene eclipsed the hell out of it. SC2 is very dead and only going to get deader with time. The match fixing scandal last year killed what little interest it had left just as the savior saga killed brood war.
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Dec 28, 2016 09:01
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Fortune has a big honkin' article about startup fraud. It leads with Vinod Khosla shaming a reporter for having doubts about Hampton Creek.quote:The startup community has a set response to this kind of news, and it sounds a lot like Khosla’s sniping. Blindly defend; it’s us against them.
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Dec 28, 2016 20:37
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Speaking of Vin Kholsa, did he ever get those poors off his beach? Edit: Looks like no, but he wants the state to pay him $30 million to build an easement over his land. http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Vinod-Khosla-wants-30-million-for-Martins-Beach-6847689.php quote:“The $30 million figure is rather amusing,” said Gary Redenbacher, a lawyer for Friends of Martins Beach, which says the state Constitution makes all beaches public property. “I don't know if anybody would really take it seriously. He bought 89 acres for $32 million and is asking for $30 million for an easement over a road that is 2,500 feet long. That’s approximately 1 acre.” Baby Babbeh fucked around with this message at 20:51 on Dec 28, 2016 |
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Dec 28, 2016 20:47
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Fortune has a big honkin' article about startup fraud. It leads with Vinod Khosla shaming a reporter for having doubts about Hampton Creek. "The rich people buying into Uber’s latest round of funding, for example, got no financial information beyond a set of risk factors, according to reports." There's no loving way that is true, right? It sounds more like an indiegogo project than prudent investing.
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Dec 28, 2016 21:08
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Shifty Pony posted:There's no loving way that is true, right? It sounds more like an indiegogo project than prudent investing. It's called "gambling", look it up.
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Dec 28, 2016 21:10
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ultramiraculous posted:You marry one Space-PhD Lady and now you're calling out entire fields of study? Hey now. I was an autistic STEM lord way before the wedding! RandomPauI posted:Off topic, but any advice for how I can marry a Space Doctor? I met mine by shitposting on something awful. 
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Dec 28, 2016 21:17
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Fortune posted:Three-quarters of the 150 early-stage startups he has investigated have pitched investors with misleading or purposely incomplete information, like identifying as “customers” people who are merely using a free trial, or taking full credit for past projects they played only a small role in. Ho. ly. crap. Now, admittedly, investors who use due-diligence investigators may be unrepresentative of investors and investments overall, but even unrepresentative, three-quarters is a lot.
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Dec 28, 2016 21:20
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Again, there are lies, drat lies, and pitch decks.
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Dec 28, 2016 21:45
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I guess I wouldn't care if my startup investment was a house of cards as long as their pitch decks were believable enough for me to make a profit off another sucker later.
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Dec 28, 2016 22:27
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I'm pretty sure if you pitch was good enough you could get people to invest in your business of arbitrage of international postal coupons without anyone batting an eye.
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Dec 28, 2016 22:35
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the talent deficit posted:move to galveston, dayton or rochester (mn). those are the only civilian space medicine residency programs in the usa and they're your best best for meeting a space doctor who is single ...Why the fuckballs would they put anything in Dayton, never mind this?
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Dec 28, 2016 23:37
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GreyjoyBastard posted:...Why the fuckballs would they put anything in Dayton, never mind this? Ohio has a rich history of being a key part of the US aerospace industry.
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Dec 28, 2016 23:46
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GreyjoyBastard posted:...Why the fuckballs would they put anything in Dayton, never mind this? it's colocated with wright-patterson air force base the one in galveston is next to nasa rochester is the mayo clinic who i guess just need to have every residency
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Dec 28, 2016 23:48
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Defense and aerospace is always based in lovely parts of the country because putting people to work building weapon systems we don't need is the only form of government stimulus Republican politicians will allow.
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Dec 28, 2016 23:51
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Baby Babbeh posted:Defense and aerospace is always based in lovely parts of the country because putting people to work building weapon systems we don't need is the only form of government stimulus Republican politicians will allow. There's also lots of cheap land for testing and historically, it was too far from anyone else to get bombed eg. Wichita and airplane factories.
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Dec 29, 2016 01:02
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fortune posted:So inexperienced people are handed giant piles of money and told to flout traditions, break rules, and employ magical thinking. What could possibly go wrong? “We hope that entrepreneurs bend the rules but don’t break them,” McClure says. “You know the saying ‘There’s a fine line between genius and insanity’? There’s probably a fine line between entrepreneurship and criminality.” No, there isn't. It's a very broad, clearly defined line. With a barbed wire fence and guard dogs and sniper towers. What we're seeing is venture capitalists telling idiots that they can make it across because they're super duper special, because if only one of them makes it through they can amortize the loss from the other idiots.
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Dec 29, 2016 02:18
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Fortune has a big honkin' article about startup fraud. It leads with Vinod Khosla shaming a reporter for having doubts about Hampton Creek. This article was pulled.
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Dec 30, 2016 05:01
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Still up on venturebeat.
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Dec 30, 2016 05:19
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When I first clicked the link from here it was pulled, but after following the link to Fortune from Venture Beat it worked again. And now when I click the link from here, it works. Mysterious.
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Dec 30, 2016 05:35
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A Man With A Plan posted:There's also lots of cheap land for testing and historically, it was too far from anyone else to get bombed eg. Wichita and airplane factories.
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Dec 30, 2016 06:08
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If you're an android user and a big ol' nerd, you have probably heard of Cyanogenmod. Well, a while back some real dickhead convinced the guy who wrote it to turn it into a startup. http://business.financialpost.com/e...lds-tech-giants quote:It’s a bold prediction and a difficult mission. Yet, Cyanogen has some significant ammunition at its disposal. Billion dollar valuation! Andreessen Horowitz! What could possible go wrong? For a while, things looked good. They partnered early with OnePlus, whose first product was a real big breakout hit and had Cyanogen written all over it. Great news, right? Well, that spicy Indian smartphone market was just too juicy to pass up, I guess. Cyanogen CEO Kirt McMaster (i did not make up that name) decides seemingly out of the blue to blow up their contract with OnePlus over email. Turns out they had another deal going with Micromax, an Indian cellphone provider, to provide exclusive rights to CyanogenOS in that region, which would have conflicted with their agreement with OnePlus. As if that isn't bad enough, due to some complex legal shenanigans, this new contract allows Micromax to get an injunction against OnePlus that locks them out of the entire Indian market. Whoops! When asked for comment, this gem erupted from Cyanogen: http://www.androidcentral.com/steve-kondik-india-micromax-and-oneplus quote:Companies need to make money in order to survive, and Cyanogen Inc. is very much a company now — so if money isn't changing hands through licensing agreements, how are these guys making money? According to Kondik, they aren't. Well, after all this fun and rejecting a billion dollar buyout offer from Google, where are our scrappy heroes now? http://www.universityherald.com/articles/57773/20161229/cyanogen-inc-shuts-down-cyanogenmod-lineage-os-continues-great-legacy.htm http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2016/07/report-cyanogen-inc-to-layoff-20-of-workers-may-pivot-to-app-development/ Kondik walked away this week, taking their entire product with him, and they laid off half their staff. whoops.
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Dec 31, 2016 02:08
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The Cyanogen story is like everything hilariously dumb and wrong with tech wrapped up in one little package. Smoke and mirrors.
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Dec 31, 2016 02:42
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Dr. Fishopolis posted:Well, after all this fun and rejecting a billion dollar buyout offer from Google, where are our scrappy heroes now?
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Dec 31, 2016 10:41
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Does a16z even require unanimity among partners to make an investment? I've never thought to ask.
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Dec 31, 2016 11:11
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the talent deficit posted:
It's not a particularly well developed program, and their clinical aerospace medicine dept. is rolled in with occupational health. IIRC they only have like 3-4 attendings who have the credentials/experience to say they training in aerospace med.
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Dec 31, 2016 11:19
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Subjunctive posted:I thought he spent a lot of his time making billions of dollars. Well allegedly so did Mark Nordlicht, until he didn't.
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Dec 31, 2016 11:33
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https://twitter.com/jack/status/814925877532303360 earlier he responded to someone saying less nazis with "doing our best with our policies!!"
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Welcome to Uber Safe Rides where a driver can beat you nearly to death and Uber will refuse to release information to the police! http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/01/man-alleges-his-uber-driver-refused-to-take-him-home-then-beat-him-up/ ArsTechnica posted:
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Jan 6, 2017 15:42
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uber's resistance to proper driver background checks is one of their more egregious stances, I think. Are they that desperate for drivers? I'm surprised there haven't been more lawsuits related to it.
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Jan 6, 2017 18:33
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Cool that a guy named Luber is a lawyer suing Uber. Medium is laying off 50 people and closing New York and DC offices. They've run into that old problem of forgetting that they need to make money, which you can read between the buzzwords in the post quote:However, in building out this model, we realized we didn’t yet have the right solution to the big question of driving payment for quality content. We had started scaling up the teams to sell and support products that were, at best, incremental improvements on the ad-driven publishing model, not the transformative model we were aiming for. https://blog.medium.com/renewing-mediums-focus-98f374a960be#.ftnviyded
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Jan 6, 2017 18:43
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axeil posted:Welcome to Uber Safe Rides where a driver can beat you nearly to death and Uber will refuse to release information to the police! How in the gently caress do you "refuse to provide authorities with relevant information of the driver as part of the investigation into this case"? I'm not a legal expert here, but wouldn't police just get a judge to sign off on a warrant and then use that legal authority to get the information? What the hell is going on here?
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Jan 6, 2017 18:59
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Solkanar512 posted:How in the gently caress do you "refuse to provide authorities with relevant information of the driver as part of the investigation into this case"? I'm not a legal expert here, but wouldn't police just get a judge to sign off on a warrant and then use that legal authority to get the information? What the hell is going on here? I think it's like this: cops: hey one of your drivers beat someone up, can you please provide us info voluntarily to help us solve this horrible crime like basically any other non-involved human being/organization would? uber: get a warrant OR oh he was an "independent contractor" so we don't have to give you poo poo. ask his "company" for it.cops: okay go gently caress yourself. we will spend extra time and money to get your warrant, rear end in a top hat since you are not cooperating. victim: 
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Jan 6, 2017 19:02
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How much longer till all these business that make literally no money go under? Like, it amazes me Twitter, Facebook, Uber and the like stay open so long while operating in the red.
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Jan 6, 2017 19:04
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Covok posted:How much longer till all these business that make literally no money go under? Like, it amazes me Twitter, Facebook, Uber and the like stay open so long while operating in the red.  facebook is profitable and twitter could be if they made some changes. facebook made like four billion in 2015. uber's the big exception here because they're trying to drive out competitors from the taxi market by severely subsidizing their services with VC money. even amazon generates a ton of revenue but practically no profit because they put nearly all earnings back into infrastructure for their giant robot warehouses, hosting centers, etc.
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Jan 6, 2017 19:14
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Blut posted:uber's resistance to proper driver background checks is one of their more egregious stances, I think. Are they that desperate for drivers? It seems to have more to do with Uber just not wishing to capitulate to any regulation at all rather than any sort of need. This is just like them not filing for an autonomous vehicle permit. They can easily afford to pay it and there's no good reason for them not to. They just don't want to set the precedent that they're willing to actually oblige local authorities.
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Covok posted:How much longer till all these business that make literally no money go under? Like, it amazes me Twitter, Facebook, Uber and the like stay open so long while operating in the red. How long till all the wealth is redistributed and/or people stop falling for sales pitches?
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